Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Infrastructure Act provides $5 billion in funding for states to help develop a national EV charging network. Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. The Inflation Reduction Act provides another important source of state funding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Decarbonizing the power sector is also a linchpin of economy-wide efforts to cut emissions, through electrification of energy use for transportation, industrial purposes and in residential and commercial buildings. The West Virginia v. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 amended the Clean Air Act to create the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a new program which will deploy $27 billion in competitive grants to mobilize financing for clean energy and climate projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 19, 2021

EPA’s 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule). The 2019 ACE Rule replaced the 2015 Clean Power Plan as a means of regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants. hinged on a fundamental misconstruction of Section 7411(d) of the Clean Air Act.” Circuit issued an Order vacating U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. We are therefore calling on Congress to immediately pass the $555 billion in clean energy and climate investments included in the reconciliation bill. Supreme Court released its decision on West Virginia V.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Plaintiffs argued that the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA), and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) preempt Rule 2305. The summary judgment briefing is analyzed in detail in this Latham blog post.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Already, utility scale wind and solar electricity is cheaper to generate, and now is a critical time for Pennsylvania to invest in clean energy jobs. Pennsylvania has been a part of RGGI for over a year but has not been able to benefit due to the initiative being held up in the courts.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

These summaries highlight where EPA is required to, for example, establish new grant or loan programs, implement protections and safeguards under the Clean Air Act such as the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, provide technical assistance, or take other steps to implement the IRA.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Since 2018, GASP reported on the backlogs that exist at ACHD and DEP’s six regional offices for processing applications for Title V Operating Permits, the permits that the Clean Air Act requires the largest sources of air pollution to have.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Bad The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases, ruling it does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions across the entire energy sector but can only do so on a station-by-station basis. We need bold action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, defining “clean hydrogen” to reward hydrogen that is actually clean results in the scale-up of a hydrogen sector readily and robustly climate-aligned, with the right technologies built in the right places at the right times and the right pace. And yet, the dazzling prospect of easy money threatens to blind.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Before PennFuture, Stepp was the Director of ITIF’s Center for Clean Energy Innovation (CCEI), where he managed and directed high-profile energy and climate policy initiatives at the state, national, and international level. energy technology policy.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or “IRA”), widely hailed as the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in U.S. The bill also has healthcare and prescription drug provisions, makes tax code changes unrelated to climate and energy, and guarantees federal land on- and offshore for oil and gas drilling.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget assesses its spending to be around $485 billion, of which around $386 billion goes to climate and energy programs. The IRA’s funding is notable for providing enormous amounts of tax credits and rebates for clean energy, buildings, and transportation.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. Local governments may have different views about the kinds of projects they would like to see prioritized, but there are likely areas of commonality.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

What’s Next? EPA will take public comment on the proposed decision for 60 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

In June 2019 the EPA repealed the Clean Power Plan and replaced it with the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, which is projected achieve a 0.7% The brief emphasizes that EPA has abdicated its duty under the Clean Air Act to meaningfully address carbon dioxide pollution and grapple with the grave threats of climate change.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. This is one of the most important issues of our time.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. Fossil power plants could offset emissions by investing in new natural gas and renewable energy generation sources. This language, particularly the bolded text, is important.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

The industry has argued that in EPA has eschewed requiring changes in a plant’s proposed fuel mix in implementing another part of the Clean Air Act, which deals with pollution from new plants. Although I don’t see West Virginia case as a barrier, there could be more mundane legal issues.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2023

Of Agriculture Starts Accepting Resource Enhancement Farm Conservation Tax Credit Applications Aug.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S. Diverse climate solutions will drive the broadest economic growth, job creation, and expedite the transition to a clean energy economy – and thereby create opportunity and limit pollution exposure for all Americans.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S. Diverse climate solutions will drive the broadest economic growth, job creation, and expedite the transition to a clean energy economy – and thereby create opportunity and limit pollution exposure for all Americans.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Although this is appropriate and in keeping with the structure of the Clean Air Act, each of the multi-state RTOs like PJM operate a single dispatch. As a result, states will need to coordinate and work closely together to ensure that the individual state plans work well on a regional basis. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The paper addressed the Clean Energy Standard and carbon taxing, but excluded carbon capture and nuclear energy. Senator Capito questioned how Mr. Uhlmann’s stance on the Clean Energy Standard would align with his EPA nominated role.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

the Departments of Interior and Energy). In the first decade-plus of this Century, about half of the states actively sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy alternatives to coal. But the federal government needs help, and I believe we should look to the states to provide such assistance.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Climate Solutions plaintiffs argue that I-2066 violates Washingtons single subject rule by requiring voters who may support affirming access to natural gas service, to vote for unrelated repeals and other changes to state law provisions that promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (among other unrelated changes).

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